Common sugarbush or suikerbossie, Protea repens. Honey-bearing protea, Protea mellifera. Native to the Cape, South Africa, introduced by Scottish botanist Francis Masson in 1774. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sansom after a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Stephen Couchman, London, 1796.

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